Russia’s young inventors honored at BIT Contest

The second prize went to Kuznech. This St. Petersburg based startup is developing a technology for indexing and comparing billions of images online, using a 150-parameter statistical algorithm. Kuznech can find similar images in seconds by comparing them to signatures in its reference database.

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Why «Kuznech»?

«Kuznech» is derived from a Russian «kuznechik», which means «grasshopper».

Grasshopper is a very unique insect: it has 5 eyes. Three simple eyes are used to distinguish between light and dark, while two large compound eyes are composed of many hexagonal lenses (ommatidia). Each such lens picks up a certain pixel of an image, and looking through all the lenses puts one final image together. Compound eyes are a way of seeing more efficiently at the high velocities.

Pointing up the company's focus on visual search and object recognition, we dropped the suffix «-ik» and turned into «Kuznech». Now you know :)